Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 254-262 , April 2010

Reducing non-collision injuries in special transportation services by enhanced safety culture

  • Anders Wretstrand

      Affiliations

    • Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Technology and Society, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden. Tel.: +46 46 2229125; fax: +46 46 123272.
    • ,
  • Jan Petzäll

      Affiliations

    • Swedish Transport Agency, Norrköping, Sweden
    • ,
  • Per-Olof Bylund

      Affiliations

    • Emergency and Disaster Medical Center, University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • Torbjörn Falkmer

      Affiliations

    • Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Jönköping University, Sweden; Linköping University, Sweden

Received 15 July 2008 ,Revised 30 June 2009 ,Accepted 4 September 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00190-8

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.09.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 254-262 , April 2010

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